Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a long history of trading barbs with the current president of the U.S., Donald Trump. But in the face of criticism, the 54-year-old chief executive claims to be taking the high road—saying in a recent interview that he fully expects his company to be scrutinized.

“Whether it’s the current US administration or any other government agency around the world–Amazon is now a large corporation and I expect us to be scrutinized,” the billionaire CEO said during the event, hosted in Berlin.

“We should be scrutinized,” he continued. “I think all large institutions should be scrutinized and examined. It’s reasonable. And one thing to note about is that we have gotten big in absolute terms only very recently.” He said that in the past 8 years the company had jumped from 30,000 employees to 560,000.

Bezos added: “I know we should be scrutinized and I think it’s true that big government institutions should be scrutinized, big non-profit institutions should be scrutinized, big universities should be scrutinized. It just makes sense.”

A combination photo shows Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (L) in New York and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. on December 14, 2016 and on December 20, 2017 respectively. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (L) Jonathan Ernst (R)/Files

In the wide-ranging interview, Bezos said that he believes the debate over data privacy—in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal—is “one of the great questions of our age,” because the internet can now shape democracies.

“The fact that I can look up almost anything on Wikipedia in 5 seconds is an unbelievable capability that just simply didn’t exist 20 years ago,” he said. “And so on and so on. But we’re also finding out that these powerful tools enable some very bad things, too, like letting authoritarian governments interfere in free democratic elections in the world. This is an incredibly scary thing.”

Bezos added: “How do you safeguard people’s physical safety against terrorists and bad actors all over the world, and how do you balance that against privacy? These are very challenging questions. And we’re not going to answer them, even in a few years. I think it’s going to be an ongoing thing for quite a while.”

Amazon maintains that it remains in full compliance with U.S. tax laws. Last week, its financial results indicated the company was thriving, with a net income of $1.6 billion in the first quarter of this year, compared to $724 million in the first quarter of 2017. Net sales increased 43% during the same period, it said.